On 24/05/07, Need Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruce Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "make clean" or "make distclean" is your friend.
> Do these commands automatically go through all subdirectories located within > the "/agent/mibgroup/" directory and remove all the ".o" files and ".lo" > files for me? Yes. > I know I heard of these commands before, but I can not remember where I read > about them, so I am not sure what they really mean. It is hard trying to > learn SNMP and remember where I saw everything ...... These are not really anything to do with SNMP. "make" is the standard Unix mechanism for structuring the building of complex software packages. > so would it be > possible to explain to me the difference between these two commands please? "make clean" is the universal convention for removing the intermediate results of compiling the software (and may or may not remove the final binaries as well). "make distclean" and/or "make realclean" are less universal, but are common conventions for removing both the intermediate results, final binaries, and any build configuration settings (e.g. the data gathered by "configure"). The basic idea here is "make clean" gets you back to the state immediately after you first ran "configure", while "make distclean" gets you back to the state immediately after unpacking the software in the first place. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
